Personal philosophy: A true freethinker

We all have our own, somewhat unique and personal philosophy on life and its many facets. Its vital, i believe to our identity and overall individuality. It provides us a platform of values, and idiolgies which serve as a guidline to how we live our lives. In short the way we think shapes us into who we are. The better our perception, the greater our reason, the deeper our thaught, the more solid our understanding, in turn the more respectable our philosophy, the closer our actions are to our 'respectable' personal philosophies, the better the person youll be and the true freethinker youll become. Well thats my philosophy on the matter at least! We may sway whichever way we deem acceptable in our reasoning of various philosophies and idiologies. We may move backwards and forth between contradicting philosophies, change and mould existing philosophies into our own version of whats right and acceptable or of more significance to us. Not all of us do this though eventhough we are on a constant road of change as we progress through life.Some philosophies in particular may stay with us, and even get further reinforced with greater understanding, reason and time. Just the same as some philosophies will get completly replaced with very different values and outlooks.We may take from various sources, as i do to add depth and further understanding of what we think. Some of my favourite thinkers are Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Sartre and Albert Einstein and Ayn Rand, Richard Dawkins etc.Eventhough some aspects of their fundamental philosophies collide, as they do. One has to be open-minded and abstract from different sources, the idiologies which through reason, substantiate and/or harmonise upon ones existing personal values and idiologies, to incorporate and in turn further expand or even change the sphere of our personal philosophy and the overall person we are.One who blindly follows any one type of idiology alone narrow-mindedly, free of reasonable morality in the face of contradiction by opposing values and philosophies, is both a fool and incapable of truly developing, a truly independent and unique but respectable philosophy for themselves. Thus such a person through their narrow-mindedness is deemed ignorant, arrogant and the very opposite of a true freethinker. A real freethinker.